(10-9-1) (RHP ; 0-2, 9.64) vs. (4-10-3) (LHP Justin Nicolino; 0-0, 12.46) ROGER DEAN STADIUM, JUPITER, FL Wednesday, March 15, 2017 – 1:05 p.m.

TODAY’S GAME: The Marlins host the New York Mets today at Roger Dean Stadium. Miami is still looking for its first win against the Mets this spring, halfway through their eight-game series. Today’s game can be heard in English on WINZ TODAY’S PITCHING LINEUP 940 AM and 94.9 HD2. LHP Justin Nicolino RHP Stephen Fife TODAY’S STARTING : Left-hander Justin Nicolino is scheduled to get the start for Miami, opposite right-hander LHP Dillon Peters Matt Harvey for the Mets. After allowing five runs (four earned) in just 0.1 inning of relief in his Spring debut, Nicolino has LHP Jarlin García allowed just one run in each of his last two outings, a 2.0-inning start on March 3 vs. Washington (4 h) and a 2.0-inning RHP Drew Steckenrider stint out of the ‘pen on March 9 at Washington (h, so).

LOOKING AHEAD: The Marlins have their second off-day of the spring tomorrow. They return to action on Friday, St. Patrick’s Day, when they host the here at Roger Dean Stadium. Right-hander Scott Copeland is scheduled to make the start for Miami. It will be his second start (fourth appearance) of the spring, going 2-0 with a 7.50 ERA (6.0 ip/5 er). He earned a win in his last outing, a start on March 11 at Houston (3.0 ip, 2 so).

YESTERDAY’S GAME: Miami lost for the second day in a row, falling to the , 7-1, here at Roger Dean Stadium. The Tigers built up a 7-0 lead through seven innings before Matt den Dekker led off the eighth with a solo , his second long-ball of the spring. JT Riddle (1x2) and Destin Hood (1x4) had the only other extra-base hits for Miami, both with doubles. Adam Conley got the start and took the loss, despite allowing just one run on five hits over 3.0 innings, with four . Junichi Tazawa (1.0 ip, 2 h, so), (1.0 ip, so), and Kelvin Marte (1.0 ip) closed out the game with scoreless innings for the Fish.

CURRENT ROSTER: Miami has 55 players in Major League camp, including 39 members of the 40-man roster and 16 non-roster invitees. The roster con- sists of 28 (6 NRIs); 18 right-handers (four NRIs) and 10 left-handers (two NRIs). There are six catchers (two NRIs), 11 infielders (four NRIs) and 10 outfielders (four NRIs).

FISH ROCKING THE WBC: The Miami Marlins are making their mark on the World Classic this spring. Martín Prado, playing for Venezuela, be- came the first player in WBC history to have a five- game in Saturday’s 11-10, 10-inning victory over Italy in Jalisco. Among Prado’s five hits (two doubles) and three RBI was a game-winning RBI-double in the 10th. He followed that up Sunday with a 2x4 outing and two RBI against Mexico. Mean- while, in Miami, Christian Yelich was 2x4 with a double and an RBI in a 7-5 loss by the United States against the Dominican Republic on Saturday, then 2x5 with two runs scored in Sunday’s 8-0 win over Canada to clinch a spot in Pool F play in San Dieg. Prado is batting .438 for the tournament, with three doubles and five RBI, while Yelich is batting .500 with two doubles and an RBI; entering today’s games, they ranked T-22 and T-8 in the WBC in batting, respectively, while Prado ranks T-7 in RBI.

WBC ROCKED MIAMI: First-round action in Miami was a big success last week. A total of 163,878 fans attended the six games held at Marlins Park, an average of 27,313 per game. According to , that is the highest first-round attendance total at an Ameri- can venue in WBC history. There were two sellouts last week in Miami: the Dominican Republic/United States game on Saturday night (37,446) and the Dominican Republic/Colombia game on Sunday (36,952). The attendance for the DR/US game on Saturday set a Marlins Park record.

ALL-STAR GAME COMES TO MIAMI: The Marlins will host the Midsummer Classic for the first time in club history when the Midsummer Classic comes to Marlins Park on July 11. All-Star week festivities will begin on July 7 and continue through the final weekend of the first half and into the All-Star break. FanFest will kick off at the Miami Beach Convention Center on July 7 and run through July 11; Marlins Park will host All-Star Sunday on July 9, featuring the Sirius XM All-Star Futures Game and the All-Star Legends & Celebrity Softball Game; the T-Mobile Home Run Derby will take place at Marlins Park on July 10; and the week will conclude with the 88th MLB All-Star Game on July 11.

YOUR RADIO HOME FOR MARLINS’ BASEBALL: Once again in 2017 the Marlins home on the radio dial will be WINZ 940 AM, which will broadcast all 162 games in the regular season and 15 contests. In addition, all 162 regular season and 15 Spring Training games can be heard on 940’s partner station, 94.9 HD2 in 2017. Hall of Fame broadcaster Dave Van Horne and Glenn Geffner will return to the broadcast booth for their 10th season together. For all Spanish listeners, Hall-of-Famer Felo Ramirez and Yiky Quintana will call all 162 regular season games in what is the duo’s 16th season together, and 10th on the Marlins flagship Spanish station, WAQI 710 AM. In addition to select games on the Marlins Radio Network, fans will also have the opportunity to listen to 10 games exclusively on MLB.com.

FOX SPORTS FLORIDA BROADCAST INFORMATION: This season, the Marlins will have 150 games broadcast by FOX Sports Florida, all of which will be available in HD. The 2017 campaign kicks off on April 3rd, when the Fish pay a visit to the Washington Nationals. The home opener will be April 11th, when the Marlins host the at 7:10pm. Rich Waltz will call all the action alongside former Marlins’ outfielder ; they 2017 MARLINS’ SPRING TRAINING LEADERS will be joined throughout the season by , Craig Minervini and BATTING LEADERS Jessica Blaylock, as well as former Marlin . All home games pro- Average (min. 15 AB)...... 471; Yelich (8x17) duced on FOX Sports Florida will be broadcast with SAP, and as in previous Hits...... 9; Anderson, Sierra years, fans will recognize Raul Striker, Jr. calling the action in Spanish. Runs Scored...... 7; den Dekker, Moore Doubles...... 5; Anderson Triples...... 1; Riddle MARLINS CREDENTIALS: All media members requesting a daily credential Home Runs...... 3; Moore must do so using MLB’s online credential system, located at https://creden- RBI...... 7; Rojas, Yelich tials.mlb.com. Daily credentials for regular season games must be request- Walks...... 5; Dietrich, Realmuto ed at least 24 hours in advance. Once a decision on approval is made, the PITCHING LEADERS requesting party will receive e-mail correspondence from the Marlins. If you Wins...... 2; Copeland are not contacted by someone from our office, please call at least one day Saves...... 2; Cervenka in advance to confirm that your credentials before arriving at Marlins Park. ERA (min. 5.0 IP)...... 0.00; Cervenka (5.1), García (5.0), Peters (6.0) The Marlins will honor MLB passes and BBWAA cards at all home games. Games...... 6; Cervenka ...... 9.0; Gonzalez Strikeouts...... 8; Koehler

UPCOMING STARTERS DATE TIME (ET) OPPONENT MARLINS STARTER OPPONENT STARTER BROADCASTS Thursday, March 16 OFF DAY Friday, March 17 1:05 p.m. vs. Washington Nationals RHP Scott Copeland - MLB.com TODAY’S AVAILABLE PITCHERS 2016/SPRING STATISTICS

LHP JUSTIN NICOLINO (2016) LHP JARLIN GARCÍA (2016) CLUB W-L ERA G GS SV IP H R ER HR BB SO WP BK CLUB W-L ERA G GS SV IP H R ER HR BB SO WP BK New Orleans 7-6 4.13 14 14 0 85.0 87 43 39 10 13 49 4 0 Jacksonville 1-3 4.54 9 9 0 39.2 38 22 20 4 11 27 2 0 MIAMI 3-6 4.99 18 13 0 79.1 96 45 44 8 20 37 1 0 Jupiter 0-0 1.29 5 0 0 7.0 4 1 1 1 1 5 1 0 GCL Marlins 0-0 0.00 3 3 0 4.0 1 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 2017 SPRING DAY-BY-DAY DATE OPP. DEC. IP H R ER BB SO 2017 SPRING DAY-BY-DAY 2/27 at MIN - 0.1 4 5 4 1 0 DATE OPP. DEC. IP H R ER BB SO 3/3 vs. WSH - 2.0 4 1 1 0 0 2/27 at MIN - 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 3/9 at WSH - 2.0 1 1 1 0 1 3/4 at ATL - 1.0 2 0 0 1 2 3/7 at STL - 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 RHP STEPHEN FIFE (2016) 3/11 at HOU - 2.0 1 0 0 0 3 CLUB W-L ERA G GS SV IP H R ER HR BB SO WP BK Iowa 0-2 4.61 7 7 0 27.1 28 14 14 1 10 25 1 0 RHP DREW STECKENRIDER (2016) AZL Cubs 0-0 4.50 3 3 0 8.0 9 5 4 0 3 5 0 0 CLUB W-L ERA G GS SV IP H R ER HR BB SO WP BK Jupiter 0-0 0.00 6 0 1 10.0 2 0 0 0 2 17 0 0 2017 SPRING DAY-BY-DAY Jacksonville 1-0 1.48 24 0 6 30.1 12 5 5 0 10 39 0 0 DATE OPP. DEC. IP H R ER BB SO New Orleans 0-1 5.40 10 0 7 11.2 11 9 7 1 7 15 1 0 2/27 at MIN - 1.0 2 1 0 0 0 3/4 at ATL - 2.0 3 1 1 1 2 2017 SPRING DAY-BY-DAY 3/9 at WSH - 2.0 1 1 1 1 2 DATE OPP. DEC. IP H R ER BB SO 2/27 at MIN - 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 LHP DILLON PETERS (2016) 3/3 vs. WSH L(0-1) 0.1 2 4 4 2 1 CLUB W-L ERA G GS SV IP H R ER HR BB SO WP BK 3/6 vs. NYM - 0.2 1 1 0 2 1 Jupiter 11-6 2.46 20 20 0 106.0 102 32 29 2 16 89 3 0 3/12 vs. STL - 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 Jacksonville 3-0 1.99 4 4 0 22.2 17 5 0 2 4 16 2 0

2017 SPRING DAY-BY-DAY DATE OPP. DEC. IP H R ER BB SO 2/27 at MIN - 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 3/4 at ATL - 2.0 1 0 0 1 1 3/9 at WSH - 3.0 0 0 0 1 1

2016 OFFSEASON/2017 SPRING TRANSACTIONS MARCH DECEMBER 10 Optioned RHP Jake Esch to Triple-A New Orleans; reassigned Cs Chris Hoo, 30 Signed RHP Juan Benítez to Minor League contract. Cam Maron and Rodrigo Vigil, LHPs Nick Maronde, Caleb Thielbar and Matt 23 Signed RHP Brad Ziegler to two-year contract; LHP Elvis Araujo designated for Tomshaw, and RHP Juan Benítez to Minor League Camp. assignment. 20 Signed LHP Kelvin Marte to Minor League contract. JANUARY 16 Signed RHP Junichi Tazawa to two-year contract; RHP Nefi Ogando designated 24 Acquired RHP Severino González from Philadelphia in exchange for player to for assignment. Also signed RHP Javy Guerra and OF Brandon Barnes to Minor be named later or cash considerations. League contracts. 19 Acquired RHP Dan Straily from Cincinnati in exchange for RHP Luis Castillo, RHP 10 Signed C A.J. Ellis and LHP Jeff Locke and RHP Dustin McGowan to one-year Austin Brice and OF Isaiah White. contracts. 11 Signed C Ramón Cabrera to Minor League contract. 9 Signed RHP Stephen Fife and OF Tyler Moore to Minor League contracts. 2 Signed OF Ryan Jackson to Minor League contract. 2017 SPRING DAY-BY-DAY DAY DATE OPPONENT RESULT/TIME RECORD WINNER LOSER ATTND. (SPRING) Saturday Feb. 25 ST. LOUIS W,8-7 1-0 Copeland (1-0) Gant Cunniff (1) 3,783 (3,783) Sunday Feb. 26 @St. Louis L,4-7 1-1 Mayers Conley (0-1) Bowman 4,679 Monday Feb. 27 @Minnesota L,6-9 1-2 Santana Ureña (0-1) Boshers 4,294 Tuesday Feb. 28 NEW YORK METS L,1-3 1-3 Lugo Ramos (0-1) Smoker 2,743 (6,526) Wednesday March 1 @Houston W,9-5 2-3 Koehler (1-0) Devenski --- 1,987 Thursday March 2 @New York Mets L, 6-11 2-4 Familia Straily (0-1) --- 3,953 Friday March 3 WASHINGTON L,4-8 2-5 Voth Steckenrider (0-1) --- 2,092 (8,618) Saturday March 4 @Atlanta W,8-6 3-5 González (1-0) Dickey Cervenka (1) 5,549 Sunday March 5 HOUSTON T,7-7 3-5-1 - - - 3,483 (12,101) Monday March 6 NEW YORK METS L,2-8 3-6-1 Bradford Maronde (0-1) - 3,399 (15,000) Tuesday March 7 @St. Louis L,2-9 3-7-1 Wainwright Koehler (1-1) - 5,118 Wednesday March 8 OFF-DAY Thursday March 9 @Washington T,2-2 3-7-2 - - - 4,004 Friday March 10 MINNESOTA L,2-8 3-8-2 Duffey Chen (0-1) - 2,551 (17,551) Saturday March 11 @Houston W,4-2 4-8-2 Copeland (2-0) Martes Cervenka (2) 3,436 Sunday March 12 ST. LOUIS T,9-9 4-8-3 - - - 5,084 (22,635) Monday March 13 @New York Mets L,4-6 4-9-3 Gsellman Lobstein (0-1) Bradford 6,031 Tuesday March 14 DETROIT L,1-7 4-10-3 Boyd Conley (0-2) - 2,884 (25,519) Wednesday March 15 NEW YORK METS 1:05 p.m. WINZ Thursday March 16 OFF-DAY Friday March 17 WASHINGTON 1:05 p.m. MLB.com Saturday March 18 @Detroit 1:05 p.m. WAQI Sunday March 19 WASHINGTON (SS) 1:05 p.m. WAQI, MLB.com @New York Mets (SS) 1:10 p.m. Monday March 20 @Atlanta 1:05 p.m. Tuesday March 21 HOUSTON 1:05 p.m. WINZ Wednesday March 22 @New York Mets 1:10 p.m. Thursday March 23 @St. Louis 1:05 p.m. WINZ Friday March 24 WASHINGTON 7:05 p.m. MLB.com Saturday March 25 ST. LOUIS 1:05 p.m. WINZ, WAQI, FSFL Sunday March 26 @St. Louis 1:05 p.m. WAQI, MLB.com, FSFL Monday March 27 NEW YORK METS 1:05 p.m. WINZ Tuesday March 28 HOUSTON (SS) 1:05 p.m. @Washington (SS) 6:35 p.m. WINZ, FSFL Wednesday March 29 @Houston 1:05 p.m. MLB.com Thursday March 30 OFF-DAY Friday March 31 DETROIT 7:05 p.m. WINZ Saturday April 1 DETROIT 12:05 p.m. WINZ

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PRONUNCIATION GUIDE # Player/Coach Pos. # Player/Coach Pos. 46 (Bear-claw) RHP 4 Frank Menechino (MEN-eh-KEE-no) CCH 81 Juan Benítez (Ben-NEE-tez) RHP 6 Mike Pagliarulo (Pag-lee-ah-rue-loh) CCH 41 Justin Bour (Boar) INF 14 Martín (Mar-teen) Prado INF 54 Wei-Yin (WAY-in) Chen LHP 44 A.J. Ramos (Ră-mos) RHP 43 Odrisamer (Oh-drees-ah-mer) Despaigne (Des-spahn-yay) RHP 60 J.T. Realmuto (Reel-mue-toe) C 67 Jake Esch (Esh) RHP 27 Giancarlo (ZHON-carlo) Stanton OF 66 Jarlin (Har-lin) García LHP 25 Junichi (Jue-Nee-chi) Tazawa RHP 40 Javy (Hah-vee) Guerra (Gher-ra) RHP 18 Tomás (Toe-mahs) Telis (Tell-iss) C 72 Tayron (TIE-rahn) Guerrero RHP 56 Caleb Thielbar (THEEL-bar) LHP 3 Adeiny (a-DAY-nee) Hechavarria (ETCH-a-VA-ree-A) INF 62 José Ureña (oo-REH-nya) RHP 88 Matt Juengel (Ying-gle) INF 75 Jeff Urgelles (Ur-ghel-les) CCH 34 (COAL-er) RHP 81 Rodrígo Vigil (Vih-HEEL) C 53 Kyle Lobstein (Lob-STEEN) LHP 29 Brad Ziegler (Zeeg-ler) RHP 84 Cam Maron (Mair-rahn) C